Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miami became the only major mainland U.S. city to be governed primarily by Hispanics. Puerto Rican-born Mayor Maurice Ferre won a-fourth term, and Hispanics were assured of three posts on the five-member city commission. They retained two seats, and a runoff for another commission post will pit two Cuban-born candidates against each other. Indeed, twelve of the 16 candidates for top city offices were of Latin background...
About 25 students last night picketed a Chase Manhattan Bank minority recruiting meeting, calling on students not to attend the meeting and on Chase to halt its operations in Puerto Rico and other third world countries...
Roberto Lewis '79-1, a member of La Organization--the group which sponsored the protest--said yesterday the demonstrators wished to "eliminate the privilege of Chase in Puerto Rico and its support of a colonial government...
...want Chase to stop its exploitation of people in third world countries, but especially in New York and Puerto Rico," Daniel Bello '81, a member of La O, said at the rally...
Money alone will not turn the Caribbean into paradise. After all, Puerto Rico gets more than $1 billion in federal aid, but unemployment hovers at 18% and the living standard is well below that of the mainland U.S. Still, there is a growing recognition by the Administration that "poverty is the real menace" -to cite the words of Francisco Peńa Gómez, secretary-general of the Dominican Republic's ruling party. As one policymaker puts it, "There's a feeling that the U.S. should get more involved with a country like Nicaragua or a Caribbean...